Master 2022/2023

Adviser's Seminar // "Current Paradigms of Foreign Language Teaching"

Type: Compulsory course (Foreign Languages and Intercultural Communication)

Area of studies: Linguistics

Delivered by: School of Foreign Languages

Where: School of Foreign Languages

When: 1 year, 1-4 module

Mode of studies: offline

Open to: students of one campus

Instructors: Alexey Bakulev

Master’s programme: Иностранные языки и межкультурная коммуникация

Language: English

ECTS credits: 6

Contact hours: 18

Course Syllabus

Abstract

The seminar focuses on introducing fundamental concepts, aspects and trends of current paradigms of foreign language teaching. Attention will be paid both to familiarizing students with the issues in question and assisting them with the design of their research and professional development trajectory. The seminar features group meetings and individual conferences both as established in your class schedule and during my office hours/by appointment on an as-needed basis.

Learning Objectives

• To design, establish, and amend students' trajectories of their professional and research development in foreign language teaching
• To establish the overview of the current state of affairs in foreign language teaching
• To review both extensively and intensively the relevant literature (both seminal books and other important sources) in foreign language teaching

Expected Learning Outcomes

• Students can identify, formulate, and interpret fundamental concepts of foreign language teaching.
• Students can align fundamental concepts of foreign language teaching with their research/professional interests.
• Students can recognize, interpret, and evaluate approaches to foreign language teaching.
• Students can recognize, interpret, and evaluate past and current trends in foreign language teaching.
• Students can identify their own research/professional needs in foreign language teaching.
• Students can identify the skills and competences necessary to meet their research/professional needs in foreign language teaching.
• Students can review, interpret, and evaluate literature on foreign language teaching.
• Students can write analytical reviews on the theory and practice of foreign language teaching to establish the foundations of their Master's dissertations.

Course Contents

• Introduction to FLT
• FLT trends
• FLT trajectories

Assessment Elements

• Analytical Review
• Individual Trajectory Map
  The individual trajectory map is a student's professional development roadmap in accordance with the learning outcomes they need and intend to obtain within their teaching specialization. Students design the map along the way throughout the year. They have to show it to the advisor to obtain feedback at least three times before the final submission at the end of Module 4. After the final submission, there will be an individual or group conference during which students reflect upon what they have and have not achieved according to the map and why.
• Individual Trajectory Map Revised
  Students produced updated versions of their individual trajectory maps in accordance with the advisor's feedback upon them and also according to the advisor's feedback upon their analytical reviews.
• Presentations of Master's Dissertation Detailed Proposals
  Students present their dissertation proposals in front of a committee and their classmates.
• Research Internship
  The internship can be blended and hybrid, i.e. online and offline.
• Project
  This is a group project on approaches to foreign language teaching.

Interim Assessment

• 2022/2023 4th module
  0.25 * Project + 0.25 * Analytical Review + 0.25 * Research Internship + 0.25 * Individual Trajectory Map
• 2023/2024 3rd module
  0.5 * Presentations of Master's Dissertation Detailed Proposals + 0.5 * Individual Trajectory Map Revised

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

• Astrida Skrinda. (2019). Teaching English: Perspectives, Methods, and Challenges. Nova.
• Ellis, R. (2012). Language Teaching Research and Language Pedagogy. Malden, Mass: Wiley-Blackwell. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=430951

Recommended Additional Bibliography

• Eisenmann, M. (2019). Teaching English: Differentiation and Individualisation. Schöningh.
• Faidal, N. F., Nur, R.-, & Suriani, S. (2020). The Teachers’ Pedagogic Competence in Teaching English through Online and Offline Setting. https://doi.org/10.26858/eltww.v7i1.13294
• Jeong-Bae Son. (2018). Teacher Development in Technology-Enhanced Language Teaching. Palgrave Macmillan.
• Rosell-Aguilar, F., Beaven, T., Fuertes Gutiérrez, M., & Research-publishing.net (France). (2018). Innovative Language Teaching and Learning at University: Integrating Informal Learning into Formal Language Education. Research-publishing.net.
• Мильруд, Р. П.  Теория обучения иностранным языкам. Английский язык : учебник для вузов / Р. П. Мильруд. — 2-е изд., перераб. и доп. — Москва : Издательство Юрайт, 2021. — 406 с. — (Высшее образование). — ISBN 978-5-534-11977-0. — Текст : электронный // Образовательная платформа Юрайт [сайт]. — URL: https://urait.ru/bcode/476448 (дата обращения: 28.08.2023).